Status

Active

Distinct actor

LOW 55%

Named actor

INSUFFICIENT

First observed

4 Apr 2026

Last updated

4 Apr 2026

Motivation

Financial (DEFINITE)

Note on UTA identifiers: "UTA" stands for Unattributed Threat Actor. UTA-2026-003 is a tracking label The Hunters Ledger assigns to an actor I have observed but cannot yet link to a publicly named threat group. Other vendors and feeds will not use this label; it is specific to this publication. If later evidence ties the activity to a named actor, I will retire the label and update the report.

Summary

A single operator running purchasable remote-access tools against US victims with tax-season lures, who later moved to a commercial remote-management product for persistence. Low operational security and a stable single-VPS footprint are consistent with an individual rather than an organised group.

The confidence levels above are the published report's figures. Every claim on this page is a summary of the linked reports, which remain the record.

Targeting

Targeting is given as region and sector, drawn from the reports. Victim names are deliberately not published here or in the reports.

Reports

Actor identifiers

Artifacts this operator chose or created: handles, channels, operator brands and domains, wallets and the like. Each is printed in a report linked above; the full indicator set, with its caveats, is in each report's IOC feed.

Infrastructure and tooling

Primary host

151.245.112.70 (the operator-controlled host the assigning report is named for; the full indicator set, with its caveats, is in each report's IOC feed)

Tooling

Shadow RATXWormScreenConnect

MITRE ATT&CK

31 techniques across 8 tactics, read from the mapping tables of the reports about this actor. Each technique links to where it is mapped.

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